What song does it for you?
>>128493924Oldfag here, this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d73tiBBzvFMThe weird thing is, it is not connected with a very emotional experience. But it is so lively for me for some reason. I was in my country's version of Radio Shack and at some point this song (which I already knew by then) was playing over the speakers in the store. It was a hot summer day in July and the store was pretty warm, too and it smelled of all these electronic devices displayed.When I hear this song, I am immediately transported back to that moment in that store, I can smell it, I can see the aisles, the color of the carpet floor, everything. Total backflash. And again, there is no emotional baggage attached to this moment, neither positive nor negative. I just was in that store while the song played on that particular day and my brain for some reason decided to commit this moment to absolute core memory forever. It wasn't even a matter of unburndened youth, I had my problems back then, I am in a far beter place today. Completely weird, but yeah that's probably my nostalgic music, sorry for the text wall.
1979. The video magnifies it. A lot of Led Zeppelin will do it for me too but I've listened to them so consistently for years its weird to think of it as nostalgia because they've been around in every period of my life. Ten Years Gone though.
>>128493924as a kid I thought Kiedis looked so old and ridiculous with that hair, but he was only around 36-37 at the time
>>128494231no? i used to think Gwen Stefani was ancient at 33.
>>128494064I love AoB in general. They remind of a million moments from the ‘90s though.>>128494231Heh, and now he actually looks ridiculous.
>>128493924Grouplove - Tongue Tied
>>128493924Len - Steal My Sunshine. The end of summer, the end of the millenium, and in hindsight the end of any real good vibes in the West before 9/11 kicked off the downward spiral.
>>128493924nostalgic or melancholic?
>>128493924https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB-RcX5DS5A
>>128493924Picrel>>128494064This hit me hard
>>128493924When I was 18, I had a full blown mental breakdown. Heavy dissociation, body lagged and didnt respond to my minds commands, spiraling impending doom into panic attacks several times a day. I literally didnt feel human. I didnt work, I didnt shower, I didnt leave the house, lost all friends. I slept in my parents bedroom on a daybed. If I got up, i would eat junk foods, play animal crossing city folk for 10 hours straight then go back to bed. Some days I wouldnt get out of bed for 3 or 4 hours, just lay awake and listen to music on my feature cell phone (no internet, didnt own a laptop or anything else). No joy in anything, just mindless distraction from the pain.For some reason, the two songs that soothed me and helped calm me down were these 2. Some days I would listen to one or the other hundreds of times in a row.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk_sAHh9s08https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9DaAONU024It took over a year before I started to lose the dissociation, just rotting away. But the anxiety remained for years afterwards.When I hear either of these songs (and a few others), it takes me back and the impending doom just floods in and its horrible.Its a little ironic because they were what calmed me down but now they bring me to a bad place.
>>128498246Of all the music to help yourself cope, you choose *those* songs lol.Anyway, glad you're doing better, man.
>>128493924https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V1Ld3Ej8I0
>>128498290When I hit my 30s, something just clicked. One day I woke up and realized that I had felt normal for long time. YMMV, I probably should have been seen professionally or medicated or some shit. As for Enimga, lol I have a soft spot for new-age music.>4th grade teacher>hot, first year teaching, always did cool and fun shit>watched all 3 original star wars, had blow off days where we did recess for hours.>read first three Harry Potter books to usEvery single day during "study hall" she would dim the lights, light candles, and play Enya over a boombox.Enya - Only Time just makes me feel so warm and fuzzy when I hear it because of her.It was in her class when 9/11 happened, we stopped what we were doing and turned the news on.My parents just so happened to buy a house that had shit from the prior owner, and it was a hippie who left like fifty 90s new-age CDs. Its a guilty pleasure of mine, even though its just sorta low quality goofy 90s techno music.
>>128498429In that case, I guess it's not that strange.I, too, have a soft spot for New Age music. Here's an OG gem from the 80s:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PTWLeS34qqM&pp=ygUTamQgZW1tYW51ZWwgd2l6YXJkcw%3D%3D
She Drives Me Crazy is probably the song that gives me the most nostalgia. Takes me back to a small apartment my mom had just moved into as a kid and good times there. Kokomo as well, but a little less so. https://youtu.be/UtvmTu4zAMg?si=OMmrqUmxWIoWvDlU
It been 7 years since this song came out. Thing got very dark very quickly after thishttps://youtu.be/au2n7VVGv_c?si=OApTaBRAXrA2LLiT
I listened to a lot of Merle Haggard during a trip to Japan when I was sixteen, lonesome fugitive always makes me think of being there.
>>128499397What year did you go?Japans tourism has gotten pretty shitty as of recent, wish I could have went years ago
>>128493924Mis-shapes by Pulp, as the opening track to the definitive album of my adolescence, Different Class.
